Cardiac Surgery
Case Report | Post-myocardial infarction free-wall rupture: rapid diagnosis and management
2 Aug, 2023 | 13:52h | UTCPost-Myocardial Infarction Free-Wall Rupture: Rapid Diagnosis and Management – JACC: Case Reports
Commentary on Twitter
Learn how to evaluate, diagnose and manage #cvMI wall rupture to improve survival in #JACCCaseReports' latest issue: https://t.co/aGPJ1rZ8eu#CardioTwitter #cvSurg #CathLab pic.twitter.com/bPTtJownNf
— JACC Journals (@JACCJournals) July 31, 2023
Study | Left ventricular dysfunction in brain-dead heart donors – incidence, reversibility, and implications
31 Jul, 2023 | 14:09h | UTCLeft Ventricular Dysfunction Associated With Brain Death: Results From the Donor Heart Study – Circulation (free for a limited period)
Pooled Analysis | Post-CABG graft failure found in 33.7% of patients, strongly linked to cardiac events
20 Jul, 2023 | 11:03h | UTCGraft Failure After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Its Association With Patient Characteristics and Clinical Events: A Pooled Individual Patient Data Analysis of Clinical Trials With Imaging Follow-Up – Circulation (free for a limited period)
Commentary on Twitter
#OriginalResearch: In this analysis pooling individual level data from randomized trails, graft failure occured in 34% of patients undergoing CABG and was associated w/ increased risk of adverse clinical events #AHAJournals @WCM_CTSurgery https://t.co/Vg7t56pg0x pic.twitter.com/gmseiefME0
— Circulation (@CircAHA) July 18, 2023
AHA Statement | Indications, evaluation, and outcomes for dual heart-kidney and heart-liver transplantation
14 Jul, 2023 | 12:51h | UTC
Consensus Paper | Adult cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury
7 Jul, 2023 | 16:18h | UTC
AHA Scientific Statement | Considerations on the management of acute postoperative ischemia after cardiac surgery
29 Jun, 2023 | 14:07h | UTC
Editorial | How to become a good surgeon
22 Jun, 2023 | 15:12h | UTCHow to become a good surgeon – Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and Research
RCT | No superior recovery with minithoracotomy over sternotomy in mitral valve repair
20 Jun, 2023 | 12:51h | UTCMinithoracotomy vs Conventional Sternotomy for Mitral Valve Repair: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
See also: Visual Abstract
M-A | Similar death rates in left main disease patients treated with PCI or CABG, both in patients with and without ACS
15 Jun, 2023 | 14:59h | UTCPercutaneous Coronary Intervention vs Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery for Left Main Disease in Patients With and Without Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Pooled Analysis of 4 Randomized Clinical Trials – JAMA Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: CABG and PCI Comparable in ACS Patients With Left Main CAD – TCTMD
RCT | Noninferior survival rates with hearts donated after circulatory death versus brain death
12 Jun, 2023 | 13:57h | UTCTransplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Video summary: Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death | NEJM
News Release: Multicenter Trial Finds Using Circulatory Death Donors is Safe and Effective for Heart Transplantation – Northwestern Medicine
Commentary: Transplantation Outcomes With Donor Hearts After Circulatory Death – American College of Cardiology
Commentary on Twitter
In a randomized trial, survival at 6 months after transplantation with hearts donated after circulatory death was noninferior to that with hearts donated after brain death. https://t.co/IymsknTqSE#cardiology pic.twitter.com/oYAS10fVJt
— NEJM (@NEJM) June 7, 2023
M-A | Accuracy of diagnostic tests in cardiac injury after blunt chest trauma
6 Jun, 2023 | 14:15h | UTC
Quality-improvement intervention | Impact of stopping preoperative screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria
2 Jun, 2023 | 12:29h | UTCCommentary: Hospital intervention reduces unnecessary screening, antibiotics for bacteriuria – CIDRAP
RCT | High-dose statin loading prior to CABG shows no benefit in major cardiac and cerebrovascular events
11 May, 2023 | 12:10h | UTCStatin loading before coronary artery bypass grafting: a randomized trial – European Heart Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Statin Loading No Help Before Bypass Surgery: StaRT-CABG – TCTMD
Commentary on Twitter
Statin loading before coronary artery bypass grafting: a randomised trial https://t.co/br15X5lf7k @escardio #EHJ #ESCYoung @rladeiraslopes @ehj_ed pic.twitter.com/aQFlsJfaed
— European Society of Cardiology Journals (@ESC_Journals) May 8, 2023
M-A | Posterior pericardiotomy reduces the risk of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery
22 Mar, 2023 | 13:18h | UTCPosterior pericardiotomy for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 25 randomised controlled trials – EuroIntervention (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Related:
Consensus Paper | Pain management and opioid stewardship in adult cardiac surgery
8 Mar, 2023 | 14:22h | UTC
M-A | Effect of posterior pericardiotomy in cardiac surgery
28 Feb, 2023 | 13:34h | UTC
Guideline Synopsis | Management of thoracic aortic dissection
21 Feb, 2023 | 11:48h | UTCManagement of Thoracic Aortic Dissection – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Original Guidelines:
Review | Postoperative atrial fibrillation: from mechanisms to treatment
15 Feb, 2023 | 15:54h | UTCPostoperative atrial fibrillation: from mechanisms to treatment – European Journal of Cardiology
Commentary on Twitter
Postoperative atrial fibrillation: from mechanisms to treatment https://t.co/Alpb9eFRGb @escardio #EHJ #ESCYoung #cardiotwitter @ehj_ed @rladeiraslopes pic.twitter.com/s27PGkS49X
— European Society of Cardiology Journals (@ESC_Journals) February 14, 2023
Retrospective Study | Post-cardiac surgery fungal mediastinitis: clinical features, pathogens and outcome
15 Feb, 2023 | 15:40h | UTCPost-cardiac surgery fungal mediastinitis: clinical features, pathogens and outcome – Critical Care
RCT | Preliminary study on the effects of low-dose colchicine in patients undergoing non-CABG cardiac surgery
13 Feb, 2023 | 12:43h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
✅Colchicine reduced cardiac injury after cardiac surgery
132 pts randomized to
?0.5 mg of colchicine or placebo in the perioperative periodColchicine compared with placebo
Cardiac makers⬇️
Atrial fibrillation⬇️ (few events, though)?https://t.co/c2mZmvj6kQ#CardioTwitter pic.twitter.com/N3DUjr1WsB
— Yuki Kotani, MD | 小谷 祐樹 (@YukiKotani5) February 8, 2023
Consensus Statement | Development of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) surgical safety checklist
10 Feb, 2023 | 14:03h | UTC
Commentary from the author on Twitter (thread – click for more)
The @WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and the @ErasSociety guidelines come together.?
#ERAS teams can leverage 2 tools in 1 to improve care in critical perioperative communication moments https://t.co/EaXYyj7b56
via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork pic.twitter.com/WHJMjThubO— Mary Brindle (@MaryEBrindle) February 8, 2023
RCT | Nighttime dexmedetomidine for delirium prevention in non-mechanically ventilated patients after cardiac surgery
1 Feb, 2023 | 12:58h | UTC
M-A | Colchicine for prevention of post-operative atrial fibrillation
27 Jan, 2023 | 12:03h | UTC
M-A | Effects of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in cardiac surgery
20 Jan, 2023 | 14:35h | UTC
Review | Surgical site infection prevention
18 Jan, 2023 | 14:31h | UTCSurgical Site Infection Prevention: A Review – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Author interview: Surgical Site Infection Prevention – JAMA
Related:
Global guidelines on the prevention of surgical site infection – World Health Organization
AAOS Guideline: Prevention of surgical site infections after major extremity trauma.